Ansible Quick Start Guide

File system management module

This module is most handy when dealing with a virtualized infrastructure, but it can also be used with a bare metal setup. A disk must already exist in a remote host before that host can manage it. In a virtual environment, Ansible or other management tools allow you to automatically add disks to the host and then manage them using this module. The following is an example of a  playbook for formatting a disk using this module:

    - name: create a filesystem from a newly added disk      filesystem:         fstype: ext4         dev: /dev/sdc1

Check out the lvg and lvol modules for LVM volume and group management. LVM can simplify disk management when using a virtualized environment, especially when dealing with systems that require the shrinking ...